Flint Walls At St Marys Hall School

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TQ3203NE EASTERN ROAD 577-1/49/251 (North side) 23/06/89 Flint Walls at St Mary's Hall School

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Garden walls running along Eastern Road and including return walls at western end which enclose large rectangular area and flank drive, and return walls at eastern end which, in front of school, act as retaining walls to garden. c1836, as house (St Mary's Hall School, qv), part possibly earlier. Cobblestone and flint with pebble mortar; red-brown brick dressings. Walls 2-3m high with brick bands, piers and surrounds to openings. Walling along road in front of school is possibly earlier and has raised panels with brick edges; it returns, as low garden retaining walls, that on right raked, that on left with offset top, vertical brick strips, heightening the flint, and with sections of balustrade with triangular-headed openings. The rest of the walling, along Eastern Road, has flushed quoined pilasters projecting on insides, with brick caps; plinth and brick coping to part; and various blocked and inserted openings. Returning from this are walls at the west end (truncated) and flanking the entrance drive opposite Chichester Place, that on left truncated but preserved further north where it returns westwards.

Listing NGR: TQ3284503820